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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · Feb 24

John William "Bud" Rogan was the tallest man of African descent in recorded history (8’9 ft) ↓Read↓ ko-fi.com/post/John-Wi...

John William "Bud" Rogan, the tallest man of African descent

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · Feb 7

Jean Baptist Pointe Desable founded the city of Chicago in 1790. ↓Read↓ ko-fi.com/post/Jean-Ba...

Jean Baptist Pointe Desable founded the city of Chicago in 1790.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · Feb 6

Plantation owners demanded females start having children at 13. #BlackHistoryMonth ↓Read↓ ko-fi.com/Post/plantat...

plantation owners demanded females start having children at 13.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · Feb 5

How Black People Have Been Abused In The Field of Medicine. ↓Read↓ ko-fi.com/post/How-Bla...

How Black People Have Been Abused In The Field of Medicine.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · Feb 5

13 years ago today, at only 17, an unarmed Trayvon Martin was shot dead by George Zimmerman, fueling a movement. #BlackLivesMatter

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · Feb 5

Happy Birthday to the late civil rights activist, Rosa Parks! In 1955, she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger and got arrested for violating the city’s racial segregation laws.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · Feb 3

John Morton Finney was a Buffalo soldier who fought in World War 1, earned 11 degrees and practiced law until he was 106 years old.

He was believed to be the longest practicing attorney in the United States. #BlackHistoryMonth

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · Feb 1

Mood ✊🏿 #BlackHistoryMonth

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · Jan 24

Whoopi Goldberg and her mother, 1986.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · Jan 22

The Fascinating and Tragic story of the Fultz sisters who were Quadruplets. ↓Read↓
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THE FASCINATING AND TRAGIC STORY OF THE FULTZ SISTERS QUADRUPLETS

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · Jan 20

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · Jan 15

On this day in 1929, Civil Rights Movement leader, Martin Luther King Jr. was born. Gone, but not forgotten.

Rest in Power.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · Jan 10

Happy birthday to the late Afeni Shakur. A political activist, Black Panther, philanthropist and Mother to the Late Tupac Shakur.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · Jan 9

On this day in 1961, Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes, the first black students enrolled at the University of Georgia, were suspended.

This was after thousands of white people violently rioted. They were initially denied enrollment but a federal judge ordered their admission

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · Dec 28

It is so important for you and me to spend time today learning something about the past so that we can better understand the present, analyze it and then do something about it.” —Malcolm X

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · Dec 26

Sesame Street was originally created for black & brown inner city kids. ↓Read↓ ko-fi.com/post/Sesame-...

Sesame Street was originally created for black & brown inner city kids

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · Dec 18

BASS REEVES, THE REAL LONE RANGER ↓Read↓ ko-fi.com/post/BASS-RE...

BASS REEVES, THE REAL LONE RANGER

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · Dec 17

How Black People Have Been Abused In The Field of Medicine. ↓Read↓ ko-fi.com/post/How-Bla...

How Black People Have Been Abused In The Field of Medicine.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · Dec 11

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr on vacation in Jamaica, 1965.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · Nov 29

Happy Thanksgiving!

Did you know that James Hemings, is the reason macaroni and cheese made it to America.

The Chef de cuisine was the first American to train as a chef in France. He was enslaved by Thomas Jefferson at 8.

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James Hemings is the reason macaroni and cheese made to America.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · Nov 29

Happy Thanksgiving!

Did you know that James Hemings, is the reason macaroni and cheese made it to America.

The Chef de cuisine was the first American to train as a chef in France. He was enslaved by Thomas Jefferson at 8.

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James Hemings is the reason macaroni and cheese made to America.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · Nov 27

At 16, Yvette Stevens joined the Black Panther Party. She was responsible selling the Black Panther newspaper & helping start the free breakfast program for children.

You might know her by another name: CHAKA KHAN!

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Yvette Marie Stevens AKA Chaka Khan

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · Nov 22

Guion “Guy” Bluford was the first Black American in space as a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle ''Challenger'' in 1983. Of 10,000 applicants to the NASA space program, Guion S. Bluford was one of 35 chosen to join the new space shuttle team in January 1978.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · Nov 22

Happy 82nd birthday to Guion "Guy" Bluford, the first Black American in Space.

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @africanarchives.bsky.social · Nov 21

If the child on the left was old enough to pick cotton and the child on the right was old enough to attend Klan rallies, then today's children are old enough to learn about both of these and how they've led us to where we are today.

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